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Social constructions of successful ageing: the case of Ruware Park in Marondera, Zimbabwe

open access: goldSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2019
Social constructions of successful ageing provide an invaluable resource for challenging and reconfiguring approaches and models of geriatric care. This paper has established that contrary to normative framing of successful ageing as that (ageing) which ...
Mbulayi, Shingirai Paul   +1 more
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Necessary Entanglements: Reflections on the Role of a “Materialist Phenomenology” in Researching Deep Mediatization and Datafication

open access: yesSociologica, 2023
This article unpacks the deep engagement of media and communication studies with questions of social construction and the material infrastructures on which media’s role in social construction is based.
Andreas Hepp, Nick Couldry
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Toward “Socially Constructive” Social Constructions of Leadership [PDF]

open access: yesManagement Communication Quarterly, 2010
In their introductory editorial essay for this special issue, David Grant and Gail Fairhurst have done us a great service by valiantly producing a "Sailing Guide" to the Social Construction of Leadership (Fairhurst & Grant, 2010). As with rounding the Capes, this is not a task for the faint of heart.
Grint, Keith, Jackson, Brad
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Shifting from Individualism to Genericism: Personalization as a Conspiracy Theory

open access: yesŽurnalistikos Tyrimai, 2022
With severe mistrust around classical approaches to consciousness, this paper claims that arguments around the notion of “personalization” of media or messages are grounded on a misinterpretation.
Ebrahim Mohseni Ahooei
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Fighting Body Ideal Construction in America as Expressed in Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’

open access: yesVivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2021
Not only marginalize and discriminate big-size women, social contruction of ideal body has contribute to eating disorder and anorexia on women in America.
Resty Maudina Septiani
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Knowledge, discourse and the methodological turn in Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's the social construction of reality [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019
The aim of this article is to reconsider Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's book Social construction of reality in the context of the contemporary research in sociology of knowledge and sociological discourse analysis.
Ristić Dušan
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The Social Construction of Family Roles in Migrant Worker Income Management to Build Family Economy

open access: yesJurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2023
This paper aims to explain the social construction of family roles in migrant workers’ income management. Many migrant worker families are unable to manage their income correctly.
Tutik Sulistyowati   +3 more
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RECONSTRUCTING TOLERANCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE FOR YOUNG MUSLIMS TOWARDS INTERRELIGIOUS HARMONY

open access: yesAl ' Adalah, 2022
The level of tolerance towards non-Muslims among young Muslims today is concerning. It is because their views on religious differences have the potential to cause religious conflict.
Achmad Faesol
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Obligations as Social Constructs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In this paper we formalize sanction-based obligations in the context of Searle's notion of construction of social reality. In particular, we define obligations using a counts as conditional, Anderson's reduction to alethic modal logic and Boella and Lesmo's normative agent. Our analysis presents an alternative criticism to the weakening rule, which has
BOELLA, Guido, VAN DER TORRE L.
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Social Construction of Women Leaders among College Students

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Research, 2021
Over the years men have been dominant as leaders and consider women less suitable and competent for leadership roles due to various reasons. On the contrary women of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are emerging as successful leaders in various ...
A. Octamaya Tenri Awaru   +3 more
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